• Clarko ‘Welcome to Clarko’

    After several years of gestation, following a string of live sets in the northwest Nevada area and 2019’s tease EP Medeocre Man, Reno-raised punk miscreant Clarko drops his long-awaited debut album with an unannounced invitation befitting his nervy new wave; poised squat-like unsheathing a katana threatening either to swiftly disembowel you in one fell swoop, or likely clumsily…

  • Lambrini Girls ‘You’re Welcome’

    Is there any image more timely and pertinent in the swirling toilet of 2023 than a giant, flaming pile of shit? With creeping authoritarianism toxifying the political sphere across both sides of the Atlantic, and a confected culture war which seeks to ruthlessly trash any social gains made by women and queer communities, the burning…

  • The God In Hackney ‘The World in Air Quotes’

    There’s an inescapable feeling of dread that’s afflicted the soul of the nation. It’s not just the anxieties around ecological catastrophe, cultural inertia, or an ever-atomising society and its engendered isolation, but the collective, nagging suspicion that we’re all wandering a land of artifice, a decay of meaning that festers further in a system held…

  • Lafff Box

    Some of the most electric punk in years has come out of the former East Germany. Lassie, EXWHITE, and Ambulanz among countless others have all been spitting furious bolts of garage swag across the Saxony region. With various members of said bands combining forces for a permutated rush of hooky rhythms and explosive hardcore attack,…

  • Benefits ‘Nails’

    “…what we’re facing now is that reluctance to accept that, yes, we’re all worse off, and we all have to take our share.”  It’s an admission that can scarcely be believed. Amid the gnawing economic calamity hitting the nation and calcifying the grey spectre of malaise that doesn’t seem to ebb or dissipate, Bank of…

  • Licking Orchids

    Bristol’s GOTO Records adds another gem to its distinguished roster of innovative electronic offerings with Licking Orchids‘ debut EP, an immersive pull of hazy rumination that hovers between darkwave, shoegaze and synthpop in its introspective fog. With production help from Finlay Shakespeare, Licking Orchids‘ unique take on bedroom pop reaches into the prickling disquiet between…

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